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Fiona Patrick, Christine Forde, Margery McMahon, Alastair D McPhee

′Wow, this book has some inspiring ideas... It comes at a perfect time as schools try to mesh school improvement with performance management, new standards for various career stages and staff development... Well written, with an attractive layout and a consistently clear voice, it draws on wide and up-to-date research and writing from all parts of the United Kingdom... There are no easy answers in this book, but plenty of powerful ideas that might help us ask useful questions about how CPD...

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Fiona Scott Patrick

Sally Anne Pearce is returning to her job at the magazine Who’s Who – a job she loathes – and her boss, Evelyn (Evil) Tanner, even more. She still has her trusty comrades Marc, I touch myself Roger, Karen and her dependable sidekick in life, Rachel. Sally keeps her sanity by hiding out in her home-from-home, The Lucky Dog pub. Things might not look so bad! What could possibly go wrong for a girl like Sally? Anything and everything, from the sublime to the ridiculous – on a day-to-day basis...

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Ford Madox Ford

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Tom Goodman-Hill, Mark Bonnar, Ruth Gemmell, Crawford Logan, Gareth Thomas, Kyle Soller, Patrick Baladi, Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Ashna Rabheru, Ronan Summers, Full Cast

Major BBC adaptations of Ford Madox Ford’s two most famous works, with stellar casts including Tom Goodman-Hill, Ruth Gemmell, Kyle Soller and Mark BonnarA forgotten great of British fiction, Ford Madox Ford wrote over 80 books, founded two trailblazing literary journals and was a friend and collaborator to some of the 20th century’s most significant authors, among them Joseph Conrad, DH Lawrence, Ezra Pound and James Joyce. His two masterpieces – the ‘Parade’s End...

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Peter Clarke, James Alleman, Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Menahem Blondheim, James William Carey, John Carey, Elisia Cohen, William H. Dutton, Joachim W. H. Haes, Joo-Young Jung, James E. Katz, Yong-Chan Kim, Jonathan Liebenau, Tamar Liebes, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz, Patrick Martin, Fiona McNee, Mitchell L. Moss, Frank Nainoa, A Michael Noll, Sean Phelan, Paul N. Rappoport, René-Jean Ravault, Ronald E. Rice, Everett M. Rogers, Anthony Townsend, Pille Vengerfeldt

On September 11, 2001, AT&T's traffic was 40 percent greater than its previous busiest day. Wireless calls were made from the besieged airplanes and buildings, with the human voice having a calming influence. E-mail was used to overcome distance and time zones. And storytelling played an important role both in conveying information and in coping with the disaster. Building on such events and lessons, Crisis Communications features an international cast of top contributors exploring emergen...

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Fiona McDonald Joyce, Patrick Holford BSc, DipION, FBANT

Every parent wants their child to be happy, healthy and perform well at school. So how can you help your child achieve this? Surprising as it may seem, your child's diet plays a large part. In this concise, easy-to-follow book Patrick Holford and Fiona McDonald Joyce show parents how to maximise their child's health - and brainpower - by improving their diet.Based on Smart Food for Smart Kids, an in-depth book by the same authors, this guide distils the main points of that ...

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Maria Maria, Arnaud Arnaud, Stephen Stephen, Michael Michael, Filippo Arfini, Michele Michele, César Revoredo-Giha, Cathal Cathal, Pavel Pavel, Bruce Bruce, Wei Wei Wei Wei, Thomas Thomas, Roberto Solazzo, Mario Veneziani, Paul Wilson, Patrick Gillespie, Fiona Thorne, Thia Hennessy, Stephen Hynes, Vera Eory, Jinxiu Ding, Dr Weiwei Wang, Eleonore Guillem, Dave Murray-Rust, Joana Guimarães Ferreira, Patrick Abbot, Alexander Gocht, Maria Espinosa, Sergio Gomez y Paloma, David A. Hennessy

Agriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential growth in computing technology has allowed significant growth in mathematical modelling of the dynamics of agricultural systems. The complexity of approaches has grown in parallel with the availabil...

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Mary Mullen, Christina Morin, Lindsay Janssen, Heidi Hansson, Elizabeth Grubgeld, Julie Anne Stevens, Barry Devine, Gregory Castle, Patrick Bixby, Fiona McCann, Molly Ferguson, Ellen Scheible, Pilar Villar-Argáiz

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Irish Studies

The classical Bildungsroman charted an idealized path of human development: the harmonizing of individual desires and societal norms in the formation of a well-rounded liberal subject. But what happens when this Enlightenment blueprint for self-cultivation runs up against the particularities of a colonial society riven by nationalism, revolution, and uneven modernization?The Irish Bildungsroman provides the first comprehensive study of how this quintessentially bourgeois a...

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Sarah Craig, Maria Fletcher, Patrick Ford, Eamon P. H. Keane, Fiona Leverick, Hector MacQueen, Angus McIntosh, Peter Robson, Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe, Paul Watchman, Robin White, James P Chalmers

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The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities

The essays presented in The Ian Willock Collection on Law and Justice in the Twenty-First Century by those who knew Ian Willock, as well as those who have been inspired by his concerns, represent the wide compass of Ian’s interests. These range from a concern with the development of legal regulation to the relationship between social change and the justice system, as well as his particular interest in the accessibility of the justice system. This tribute provides a microcosm of the changes...

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Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel

The Book That Every Citizen and Journalist Should Read“What this book does better than any single book on media history, ethics, or practice isweave . . . [together] why media audiences have fled and why new technology and megacorporate ownership are putting good journalism at risk.” —Rasmi Simhan, Boston Globe“Kovach and Rosenstiel’s essays on each [element] are concise gems, filled with insights worthy of becoming axiomatic. . . . The book should become es...

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Cambridge Companions to Literature

In the Victorian period, the British novel reached a wide readership and played a major role in the shaping of national and individual identity. As we come to understand the ways the novel contributed to public opinion on religion, gender, sexuality and race, we continue to be entertained and enlightened by the works of Dickens, George Eliot, Thackeray, Trollope and many others. This second edition of the Companion to the Victorian Novel has been updated fully, taking account of new resear...

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Lee McIntyre

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The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series

We are living in a world where “alternative facts” replace actual facts—and where feelings have more weight than evidence. But how did we get here?In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into “information silos.”What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking...

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Evelyn R. Scott

Have you noticed? You continue to use cosmetics & products promising you an acne-free life, anti-aging results, smoother glowing skin...But the more you use these products, the fewer results you see. If you're like millions of other people, you may begin to feel they only prove to be a waste of both your money (the best of these products come with a hefty price tag!) and your time.There very well could be something else that is being "wasted," too -- your very health. It's ...